Iben Have

Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen

Audiobooks are rapidly gaining popularity with widely accessible digital downloading and streaming services. This book engages with the digital form of audiobooks, framing audiobook listening as both a remediation of literature and an everyday activity that creates new reading experiences that can be compared to listening to music or the radio. Have and Stougaard Pedersen challenge the historical notion that audiobook listening is a compensatory activity or a second-rate reading experience, while seeking to establish a dialogue between sound studies and media studies, comparative literature, aesthetics, and sociology.

New Media, Users, and Experiences

Digital Audiobooks

Sara Tanderup Linkis

Nina Christensen

Hans Kristian Rustad

Tore Rye Andersen

Stefan Kjerkegaard

Jorgen Bruhn

Litteratur kan sige hvad som helst. Om alt muligt. Men vi lAeser ikke kun litteratur med en bog i handen. I dag er bogstaverne vandret ud af de trykte boger og over i andre medier. Det Aendrer litteraturens muligheder og gor den bevidst om sig selv som mediebaret. Det stiller ogsa krav til lAeserne, der skal finde vej mellem skAerme, computerspil, lydboger, apps, oplAesninger og musik. I Litteratur mellem medier tager 19 forskere det alvorligt, at litteratur placerer sig mellem medier - mellem skrift, lyd og billede. De bringer moderne medieerfaringer ind i analyser af aktuelle litterAere fAenomener og introducerer til nye interdisciplinAere og mediesensitive metoder, vi kan bruge i vores egen lAesning. Undervejs forholder forfatterne sig blandt andet til romaneksperimenter, filmadaptationer, amerikanske tv-serier, forfatterportrAetter og interaktive fortAellinger - fra Pynchon til Knausgard og fra Sailor's Dream til Six Feet Under. Alt sammen med et nysgerrigt blik pa, hvad litteratur og litterAer erkendelse er, nar litteraturen ikke lAengere kun findes pa papir.

Litteratur mellem medier

Mads Krogh

Denne bog handler om hiphop i Skandinavien. Om hvordan rapmusik, hAengerovsmode og handtegn, graffiti og gadesprog prAeger dagens ungdoms- og populAerkultur i Norge, Sverige og Danmark. Og om de sAerlige udfordringer og muligheder, som musikken, stilen og attituderne har givet i en skandinavisk sammenhAeng - fra sproglig opfindsomhed og opgor med etablerede kunstneriske og kulturelle normer til nye og styrkede billeder af sociale og geografiske udkantsomrader.Hiphop i Skandinavien rader bod pa en pafaldende mangel: Hiphopkulturen har ikke tidligere faet en akademisk behandling, der modsvarer dens store kulturelle gennemslagskraft. Otte udvalgte forskere bidrager til bogen, der er den forste samlede fremstilling af skandinavisk hiphop - og en manifestation af et fremvoksende forskningsfelt.

Hiphop i Skandinavien

Jan Hein Hoogstad

Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm draws attention to rhythm as a tool for analyzing various cultural objects. In fields as diverse as music, culture, nature, and economy, rhythm can be seen as a phenomenon that both connects and divides. It suggests a certain measure with which people, practices, and cultures may comply. Yet, for this very reason rhythm can also function as a field of exclusion, contestation, and debate. In that respect, rhythm possesses an underestimated meaning-creating potential. Whereas its connecting force is often accentuated in the aesthetic, political, and commercial usage of the term, the divisive aspect of rhythm is at least as important. This volume wants to rid rhythm of its harmless, nearly esoteric, reputation as a cosmic unifier by understanding it in the light of the contemporary medial turn. In the present collection of essays, we have encouraged approaches that combine political, aesthetic, musical, and theoretical dimensions of rhythm. Jan Hein Hoogstad is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is Associate Professor in the Section for Aesthetics and Culture, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Pluralizing Rhythm

Off Beat

Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen

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